LAW firm Pannone has taken a 30 per cent stake in the Manchester company that helped boost the number of hits on its website.

It has invested more than é100,000 in I-Com. Managing partner Joy Kingsley has become a director of the firm, which employs 14 people at its HQ in Norwood House, Brighton Grove.

I-Com won a tender earlier this year to redesign Pannone's website. The efforts of bosses Tim Roberts, 44, and Ravi Bhalla, 28, and their staff increased the number of visitors to the website by 300 per cent over a three-month period.